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fruit the whole year long, as long it can be protected from severe cold, its vegetation 

 sustained, & the winter isn't too harsh. Nevertheless, the only plentiful harvest is from 

 May until the end of September. 



More than for any other strawberry plant, it's necessary to cover the ground where 

 this one is planted with dried moss & to renew the plant bed frequently, because 

 cultivation will deteriorate it before long. Extremely loose soil is preferable. 



VIII. WildSTRA WBERRY PLANT with abortive hermaphroditic flower. 



Abortive wild STRAWBERRY PLANT Du Ch. 

 Barren STRAWBERRY PLANT. 



WHEN strawberry plants are pulled up in the wild, one is often deceived by the 

 vigor of some plants that seem to promise beautiful & plentiful fruit. They're carefully 

 cultivated, & nothing comes of them. This is a sterile strawberry plant known as the 

 barren strawberry plant. 



Its leaves are about the same size & shape as those of the common strawberry 

 plant. They're a little smoother, less substantial, a deeper green, & they have more hair. 

 The denticulation seems to be no different. They're suspended on longer & thinner stalks 

 & thus form a taller bush. 



The runners are spindly, very long, & full of nodes that proliferate this strawberry 

 plant abundantly. 



The upright shoots, branches, & pedicels of the flower buds are long & slender, 

 almost intermediate between those of the common strawberry plant & those of the green 

 strawberry plant, n°. 17. 



Its flower looks more like that of the green strawberry plant than that of the 

 common strawberry plant. The small sections of the calyx are elongated 



